Hello #fish 🐟 🐠 researchers and PIs of tomorrow! We would be excited to sponsor you for an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) Presidential #Postdoc Fellowship application @michiganstateu.bsky.social. Application deadline is Nov 10, so get in touch soom! #EndlessFishMostBeautiful

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Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Get in touch if you want to know more

Polymorphism with individuals differing e.g. in colour is common. Here with Hanna Kokko discussing why this occurs, the consequences for conservation and that polymorphism could be hidden. youtu.be/rfVBmmaOwuE?...

Both posts are part of our @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded project 'Developmental control of neural cell number and type’, which builds on our work on mushroom body expansion in #Heliconius butterflies (e.g. see www.nature.com/articles/s41...) 2/n

Could you ever tire of seeing these beautiful animals up close. @exetermarine.bsky.social team over on the Isles of Scilly tagging shags for foraging and habitat studies… the colour of that eye!! @marineorno.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @bou.org.uk @eounion.bsky.social

Very rarely get a chance to do any sight seeing on these work trips but today was an exception. Deffo bucket list tick!

Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Last week at #BOU2025, we were delighted to award the Godman Salvin Prize to Prof Robert Furness for his contributions to #ornithology 👏 Please read about Prof Furness' impressive career here, as summarised by Keith Hamer 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley....#BOU2025,#ornithology#ornithology 🪶#seabirds

We watched this wonderful little female otter for about half an hour on Islay this morning.. several ballan wrasse and swimming crabs brought ashore to eat on the rocks. Only a few of our Rewilding Field Course students were up but they were treated to some fantasist views and behaviour..

Faint aurora in North Donegal as we were setting nets this evening

Critically endangered white-headed vulture in Buffalo Springs NR, Kenya. This male was hanging around a lion kill. @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

Bateleur in the evening light at Samburu. These snake specialists are masters of the air but tend only to fly/glide in the heat of the day. @ibisjournal.bsky.social @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

Fortunate to have the black and white casqued hornbill pose very nicely for us. Out on the edge of Kagamega Forest collecting mud. Presumably to help his partner seal herself into their nest hole. #ornithology #birding #kenya @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social 🦜🦅🪶🌍🇿🇦

Interested in seal diet, population size and haul out behaviour in Ireland? Funded PhD position at University College Cork. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... Application deadline 31st Jan.

Good morning from Kenya. Day 3 begins as University of Exeter MSc Conservation and Biodiversity students up at sunrise to strike camp in Naivasha. @brendangodley.bsky.social @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @aimee-mcintosh.bsky.social

It's officially HUMPBACK season in Cornwall 🐋 which means countless hours scanning the horizon, battling the 🥶 & straining my eyes!! The whales are thought to stop here to ‘refuel’ on their way ⬇️ to ❄️ breeding grounds. So get out, keep your 👀 peeled, & you might just get lucky!! Photo: Jason Prince

Lots of bleached by the wind sailors (Velella velella) on the beaches over the last few weeks.

Welcome to the last Super Seabird Sunday of the year where we ask you to share seabird photos, videos & artwork to brighten up timelines like these Gannets of the Bass rock. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Can you spot Nel the dog waiting hopefully for some Christmas dinner? @animalsdoingstuff.bsky.social Clue in the second picture

3 wise men? Wild Santa ride to Portreath this morning. Rest of the team made it for the Xmas banquet at Twelveheads (fantastic spread from the Buon Appetit!

Helloooooo @bsky.app finally deleted my twitter account! Looking forward to a much healthier level of engagement and feed on here…

European winter walkers keep 👀 out. A dead Kemp's Ridley turtle was reported on 13th December at Talacre, North Wales, UK. There will be more. Reporting guidelines here: www.ukturtles.online/Graphics%20a... 🐢🌍🧪🦑 🦤 #seaturte #marineturtle @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

New paper! Multi-year controlled #SciComm experiment finds that tweeting about published papers does NOT lead to an increase in citations of those papers. Led by @trevorabranch.bsky.social , featuring me @melissacmarquez.bsky.social @solomonrdavid.bsky.social @danirabaiotti.bsky.social & others 🧪

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

Yay! @bsky.app now counted in @altmetric.com! Now we just have to get the academic publishers to add Bluesky share buttons (looking at you, @royalsociety.org, @science.org, @pnas.org, Wiley, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @cellpress.bsky.social, Frontiers, @plos.bsky.social ...)

I am happy to talk about why we have to tag animals but it’s not OK to attack our research or our commitment towards the animals we worked with so closely.

Common dolphin washed up nr Trefusis Head. Beak has a fresh wound that looks suspiciously like net entanglement (has MSN tags so been there for a day or two at least) @exetermarine.bsky.social

New paper alert! Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution! In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets. Link to paper here: dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Link seems to be broken try this one www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs Contact me for more details ([email protected]). Please Share @britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

@padpadpadpad.bsky.social sorry I just checked and I am already there… more haste less speed. Ta S

@padpadpadpad.bsky.social hi Dan, can you add me to the CEC starter pack

Amazing day amongst the Saguaros

So grateful to be given the opportunity to present some work from the first chapter of my PhD at the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social #coimbraseabirds conference today!! @cathorswill.bsky.social @alicetrevail.bsky.social @rsherley.bsky.social @stubearhop.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social

Large shearwaters like these greats have been numerous in the southwest this year (and recent years). Wondering if it is linked to the increase in Atlantic bluefin as they often associate with one another in feeding frenzies. #ukbirding #ornithology #seabirds

The classic Shanghai skyline from the Bund… it really is a pretty awesome by day and night..

Downtown Haikou and cannot decide which of these museums to visit first?

Goosebarnacle (Lepas spp I think) colony on a piece of polystyrene washed up on Polyjoke beach Cornwall.

It was a delight to supervise @euantheyoung.bsky.social‘s Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology MSc thesis @exetercec.bsky.social, which is now published in Ecology & Evolution! #ExeterCEC

Territoriality in Green Sandpipers. Research by Ken Smith, Mike Reed and Barry Trevis shows that territories are set up in October and maintained through winter: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/w... #waders #shorebirds #ornithology #UKBirding #birds

Thanks for letting me cover this issue years ago, amazing to see progress! blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations...

Delighted to say that University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation based in Penryn, Cornwall (SW tip of England) is now here @exetercec.bsky.social Sharing: Behaviour, Conservation, Disease, Ecology, Evolution, Marine and Microbes. 🌏🦑🧪🐧🦆🦢🦏🦛🐒🐌🦟🐝🦇

Faculty Job: Assistant Professor in Fungal Biology - UC Riverside aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01824 Candidates w/ broad expertise in mycology including host-pathogen interactions, symbiosis biology, metabolism and biotechnology, development/morphology, ecology/climate change, and evolution. 🍄

Stunning day in North Dublin filming the final bits for Where the Wild Geese Go with EZ Films… lots and lots families looks like it was a good breeding year

Boom! 🙅🏻‍♂️ that’ll do! Pallid Swift on my #WestrayBirding Noup Head patch late afternoon and @PatchBirding #PWC2023 #PatchGold. Second for Orkney and first for the isle. Makes up for the distant swift I couldn’t nail during last autumns Pallid influx x.com/stevedudley_...

Interesting morning filming at UC Dublin with EZ Films for a series that’s follows the life of light-bellied brentgeese for children in Ireland and Canada

Announcing the arrival of my big friend and colleague (too big for an ordinary quad bike it seems) Prof @stubearhop.bsky.social Animal ecologist- mostly birds, migration and stable isotopes. 🌏🦑🧪🐧🦆🦢 #Exetermarine #ExeterCEC